Throughout my life, I've had pretty bad things happen to me. I'm not saying that I've suffered the worse but I feel that I do have the right to complain. Wherever a part of my body has been hurt or violated, be it emotionally or physically, I modify it. To me, piercing and tattooing is my form of cutting. It's like, the pain from getting pierced or tattooed takes my mind away from the inward pain that I feel on a daily basis. Even though that feeling might last, only for a little while, it's for those few hours or days or that actually moment when I'm going through the procedure that I don't think about the things that's troubling me. True indeed, it's cheaper and probable way more effective to just do it yourself with a razor blade or by play piercing, but I'm too chicken to do that, so I'd rather just pay somebody else and watch them do it for me. That way, I get my urge to harm myself out the way along with a beautiful new piercing and piece of jewelry to go along with it!!!
At A Glance Author Christina Jefferies Contact Christina Jefferies@bme.anon When N/A Artist I can't remember his name... Studio Borderline Tattoos Location Pleasant Prairie, WI I discovered body modification at a young age. I got my first piercing at 14 (my tongue, which I have gotten pierced 4 times), and my first tattoo that same day of my name on my left breast. I got the tongue piercing because I had been raped and forced into giving oral sex with a gun to my head, and I got the tattoo of my name to signify that my body belonged to me and only me no matter what anybody did to it.
Every time I got my tongue pierced, I would leave it in for a while, then take it out and get it repierced. It's a new experience each time because of the development of new scar tissue. I'm actively trying to get it pierced again although I doubt if anyone will repierce it because there's so much scar tissue now.
I also have my lip pierced which I got a month ago and my belly button pierced which I've had since December. I got it two weeks after I had my last miscarriage which was December 18th. I plan to get a triangle piercing in the near future, along with more tattoos.
I got my nipples and my belly pierced because those are the keys of motherhood. The uterus which houses the child until birth and the breasts which feeds. I've been pregnant three times and each of those times I've miscarried, and they all happened within the SAME year.
I woke up one morning with the urge to just cut my nipples off, so instead I opted to go to Borderline Tattoos and get them pierced. I walked in, told them what I wanted, filled out the forms, paid my money, proceeded to sit and wait until he was ready for me, lifted my shirt, and let him mark me. Mind you, this whole time, I wasn't nervous because I wanted to cut them off anyway, and this would be a hell of a lot better than doing that. But when I actually sat in the chair and saw the needles, which were 14G, that's when the butterflies came.
He put the clamps on, which hurt a hell of a lot more than I expected but not more than what was about to come. I closed my eyes, and reminded myself that I wanted to do much worse to myself and that I could handle this. Then all of a sudden I felt this indescribable, hot, burning, pain shoot through my nipple. It hurt so much, that I lifted my leg in reflex and kneed the piercer which caused the needle to go in at a slight angle. Luckily, it wasn't all the way through. So, we tried again, and this time, I braced myself. I grabbed the side of the chair, clenched and my teeth, and the first one was a success.....and I didn't kick him!!
Now the second one didn't hurt as much because of the shock of the first one. But believe me when I say, it does hurt. No other piercing I have can compare to that indescribable pain. But the beauty of them is well worth it, because to me, they are most beautiful of my other piercings.
In getting this piercing, along with the others that I have, I'm using my body to tell the story of the things that I've been through. I want my body to reflect my inner torment and happiness, my inner pain and joy, my defeats and my victories, my battles and glories. I want my body to be a reflection of me.
If I had to, I'd recommend this piercing to only those who are serious about getting it, because as beautiful as they are, they are just as much that painful when getting them.